Obamateurism of the Day

posted at 8:01 am on November 1, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

A fine sentiment, issued here by Barack Obama while visiting the Red Cross. “We leave nobody behind,” Obama says to the gathered volunteers. “We make sure that we respond as a nation, and remind ourselves that whenever an American is in need, all of us stand together to make sure that we’re providing the help that’s necessary.”

Of course, he’s talking about a private-sector organization during Hurricane Sandy … not the Obama administration during the seven hours that the Americans in our consulate in Benghazi were “in need,” in which case we apparently stand down rather than stand together.

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Obama still has not rescued 20,000 Americans from their flooded homes in Hoboken

This is the 2nd Scandal of the Year

faraway on November 1, 2012 at 8:09 AM

20K libs in a mandatory evacuation area who were told, if not evacuating, to have a week’s worth of food and water, now waiting for their govt boat and cheese to save them…something a bit schadenfreu-dilsh about it..

The only ones more despicable than Obama on this are the traitorous media wusses in the WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPSE.

Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, etc.

And message to talk show hosts like Laura Ingraham and Hannity.

Applauding these WHPC hacks for asking one question and then following up by licking the boots of Jay Carney is in appealing to your listeners. Don’t put these traitors on your shows and give them a platform. Jake Tapper is a whhhhhhhiner supreme.

We apparently don’t just stand down when a consulate is under attack. We also watch the deaths of Americans in real-time and then lie our asses off about it being caused by a video. That’s not a mere OOTD but a reprehensible dereliction of duty.

So after 4 years of a ruinous and miserable marriage, the battered wife named “Stupid American Voter” will forget what had happened after the jerk brought home a cheap daffodil when divorce paper was served?

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that our benevolent god-king let Bengazi burn because he wanted to embolden our enemies into attacking us here at home, so that in a second term he could have his own “Bush on the megaphone at Ground Zero” moment.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that our benevolent god-king let Bengazi burn because he wanted to embolden our enemies into attacking us here at home, so that in a second term he could have his own “Bush on the megaphone at Ground Zero” moment.

crazy_legs on November 1, 2012 at 8:22 AM

I think it is more evil than that. Obama was running for political office on the idea that he was a peace-maker in the Middle East, that Al Qaeda was on its heels, and that it was all his doing by his super-smart foreign policies. For that reason, the coordinated attack on that consulate had to be something other than what it was. Obama made the deliberate decision to let those Americans die because it did not fit his campaign rhetoric.

Now, were he screwed up is that he made the assumption that his Rose Garden speech and greeting of the coffins would be the beginning and ending of the story. He did not count on having to send his UN Ambassador out there to commit political seppuku. He did not count on having to maintain the lie as the central point of his own UN speech. He did not count on the Intelligence Community balking at being the chosen scapegoat for his evil decision.

I wish that once this POS is out of the White House, there was a way to deny him Secret Service protection, as payback for what he did regarding Benghazi. I would like to see him looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life. I would leave him behind in a heartbeat.

excuse me but i cant help thinking this man is the incarnation of evil. doesn’t the bible basically say that the son of the beast aka the anti Christ shall be raised in the west and take the reigns of the world through western politics?

Ed, I see an even bigger Obamateurism here. Why does he feel a need in this context to stand indoors in a suit behind a podium? Wouldn’t the message be better if he delivered it in the field, sans tie, as he surveys the damage and talks to victims? He could then just pause in front of the reporters to praise the Red Cross and other nonprofits for their hard work and then excuse himself to speak with the first responders.

The private sector created a better-than-expected 158,000 jobs in October, according to the first report employment data firm ADP released since it changed the way it computes the number.
A day after the firm sharply lowered its original count for September, ADP and Macroeconomic Advisors, working now with Moody’s Analytics, said the service sector once again had a big month for job creation.

Former Pacific Fleet chief: We need full disclosure on Benghazi — now
posted at 9:31 am on October 30, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
Retired Admiral James A. Lyons likely pulled few punches as commander in chief of the US Pacific Fleet during his career … and he hasn’t started pulling punches now, either. In a blistering column at The Washington Times, the former commander blasts the lack of action from the US when the administration learned our consulate in Benghazi had come under attack, writing that “courage was lacking” that might have saved at least some of the four American lives lost on September 11. “Someone high up in the administration,” Lyons writes, “let our people get killed” — and he wants some answers immediately as to whom:

A few members of Congress have sent letters but they’ve gone unanswered too. Apparently the president has given himself far more power than he was entitled to.

Ed, I see an even bigger Obamateurism here. Why does he feel a need in this context to stand indoors in a suit behind a podium? Wouldn’t the message be better if he delivered it in the field, sans tie, as he surveys the damage and talks to victims? He could then just pause in front of the reporters to praise the Red Cross and other nonprofits for their hard work and then excuse himself to speak with the first responders.

radjah shelduck on November 1, 2012 at 8:31 AM

You’re focused on the optics not the substance. Like when Al Gore insisted on holding a press conference concerning flooding in TN wearing waders in the water. There is a shot out there of the press all standing on dry land with Gore standing in the water.

The reality is that he could have given that speech from the Whie House Rose Garden. After all, it isn’t just for lying one’s ass off about dead ambassadors. As to surveying the damage, that too is just a photo-op. Nothing of consequence came from Obama’s love fest with Christie yesterday but he sorta had to do it after the media had such a conniption over the fact it took GWB five days to show up in New Orleans after Katrina.

I wonder Obama is purposely mocking the opposition and disrespecting the families of the fallen by uttering these words. It seems unreal that he could be so ignorant and insensitive as to choose these particular words.

doesn’t the bible basically say that the son of the beast aka the anti Christ shall be raised in the west and take the reigns of the world through western politics?

katee bayer on November 1, 2012 at 8:29 AM

I don’t know about that but look what one of the “acceptable” pastors Obama associates with thinks about white people. I’m not about to question any individual’s faith but one really has to wonder what the rat-eared wonder thinks of people that don’t look like him or Trayvon Martin.

Pastor Joseph Lowery, a civil rights movement hero who delivered the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration, reportedly said that he is shocked that any black Americans would stay home with Obama on the ballot and suggested that all or most white people would go to hell

I wish that once this POS is out of the White House, there was a way to deny him Secret Service protection, as payback for what he did regarding Benghazi. I would like to see him looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life. I would leave him behind in a heartbeat.

Night Owl on November 1, 2012 at 8:29 AM

Obama only gets SS protection for the next 10 years. Congress changed the law about SS protection for former presidents. They used to get it for life, but not anymore. Starting with George W. Bush, they only get it for 10 years after they leave office.

Of course, Obama will still get a 6-figure presidential pension for life, and we’re still stuck paying for his “office expenses” (which Bill Clinton manages to run up to more than a million a year) for life.

I knew it had changed, but I wasn’t sure what the changes were. I just think since he denied increased security in Libya and watched our people die without sending help, he shouldn’t get security at all.

“We leave nobody behind,” Obama says to the gathered volunteers. “We make sure that we respond as a nation, and remind ourselves that whenever an American is in need, all of us stand together to make sure that we’re providing the help that’s necessary.”

Obama only gets SS protection for the next 10 years. Congress changed the law about SS protection for former presidents. They used to get it for life, but not anymore. Starting with George W. Bush, they only get it for 10 years after they leave office.

AZCoyote on November 1, 2012 at 8:50 AM

…so in 11 years…there’s a possibility JugEars could be attacked and sodomized…but left… to live?…I can live with that!

Words, just words.
There is nothing behind this mans words, empty rhetoric. Meant to make his people “feel” good about themselves and nothing more.
Actully quite telling hearing him bloviate about no red tape for this storm, all others still will need to wallow through the normal endless red tape just to beg the feds for a scrap from the overlords table. Disgusting through and through.

“We leave nobody behind,” Obama says to the gathered volunteers. “We make sure that we respond as a nation, and remind ourselves that whenever an American is in need, all of us stand together to make sure that we’re providing the help that’s necessary.”

“This tragedy, turned into a debacle and massive cover-up or massive incompetence in Libya, is having an impact on the voters because of their view of the commander-in-chief. It is the worst cover-up or incompetence I have ever observed in my life. Somebody the other day said to me, ‘This is as bad as Watergate…[but] nobody died in Watergate.”

My take exactly. A bunch of libs waiting for their Candy Man to come rescue them. Willing to bet they had no problem when Zero ignored the victims of the Texas wildfires. Screw ‘em. Pump out your own basement.

With his “lean forward” comment…TWICE…I don’t think this was a flub, I seriously think Obama was trying to “subliminally” imply Benghazi wasn’t his fault. It’s ALWAYS about him, and since he won’t answer direct inquiries about Benghazi, he has to sneak this stuff in where he can, hoping the voters will say…”See Obama’s a good guy; he couldn’t have been the one who screwed up in Benghazi.”